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Carol Anne Shaw


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in Bournemouth, The United Kingdom
January 12, 1960

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I'm Carol Anne Shaw, and I write books for young people (mostly), although my current WIP is for adults. I love the outdoors, musty bookstores, good coffee, rain, dogs and Marmite.

I live in a rural community in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, with my partner Richard and our beagle, Gordie.

My debut novel, Hannah & the Spindle Whorl, is set in Cowichan Bay, BC, and won a silver Moonbeam Award for Best Historical Fiction. The second book in the series, Hannah & the Salish Sea, was published in 2013, followed by Hannah & the Wild Woods in 2015 which earned the Chocolate Lily Award for BC's Best Novel. The series is publshed by Ronsdale Press.

I have also independently published four YA novels: The Peculiar Language of Llamas, The Picas
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THE MUSHROOM HUNTER

It's been a while since I posted up a short story. I wrote this one a few years ago, but recently turned it into an audio story. It was challenging to narrate this one in the first person, in the voice of an older dude. Oh, and also, it's a sad story. If you like you can lsten to the story here, or read it below. Thanks for stopping by. Rain for five days now. Been mostly inside, except to make su Read more of this blog post »
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Published on July 03, 2026 19:24
Average rating: 4.34 · 230 ratings · 78 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors
Bambi: A Life in the Woods

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Hannah and the Spindle Whor...

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Hannah & the Salish Sea (Ha...

4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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The Peculiar Language of Ll...

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The Picasso Project

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Hannah and the Wild Woods (...

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The Scarlet Armadillo

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Tangofish

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In Praise of the Ugly Man-S...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016
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Serving up a Story

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“I tapped a few keys, wrote, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life,' and stared at the sentence. Who had initially said that? Honestly, it wasn’t all that inspirational. If you were in a really dark place facing an even darker future—for example, held hostage in a mountain cabin by a serial killer—wouldn't a message like that make you want to slit your wrists? (Natalie - Secondary Feathers)”
― Carol Anne Shaw, Secondary Feathers

“The first time I thought I was in love with Mitchell, it was raining. Not in a romantic, Jane Austen kind of way—just a steady, inconvenient drizzle that made my feet wet and my hair frizz. We were standing outside a coffee shop after a long, overly intellectual conversation about some book he had bought about Japanese culture, and I remember laughing too loudly at something he said that wasn’t really funny. In hindsight, I realize I wasn’t in love—I was just relieved. Relieved that Mitchell Simon seemed to want me. Relieved that someone like him, with his carefully pressed shirts, strict routines and iron-clad opinions, had chosen me. I mistook that relief for love. I knew better now.”
― Carol Anne Shaw, Secondary Feathers



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